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Still images from a rescue after a boat crashed over a dam and into a spillway at Lake Linganore in Maryland on Saturday night, June 27, 2015. (Frederick News Post/Sam Yu)
A boat operator was killed and eight passengers were rescued Saturday evening at a Maryland lake when the current pushed their boat over a dam and sent it crashing into a spillway.
The passengers said the swiftly moving water on Lake Linganore caught them off guard, and they were thrown from the boat at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday night, according to WJLA.com. The current was strong enough to pull the boat over a dam and into a spillway, the report added. It’s not clear if nearby storms contributed to the tragedy.
“Rainy conditions were in place much of Saturday until about 4 p.m. at nearby Frederick Municipal Airport,” said weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce. “Winds gusted to near 20 mph at times during the late-afternoon hours.”
Candy Thomson, spokesperson for the Maryland Natural Resources Police, said the 62-year-old man operating the boat was killed in the accident, the Frederick News-Post reported. His body was found about 5 hours after the crash was first reported, the News-Post also said.
After neighbors heard people screaming for help, authorities were alerted to the passengers stranded in the water, ABC News reported. Rescue crews rushed to the area and worked for an extended period of time to save the surviving eight passengers. Some were pulled out of the water by ropes, while others were airlifted by helicopter.
Lake Linganore is some 40 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.
Courtesy of weather.com
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